Three teenagers of a family from Nalgonda district of Telangana died in a fire accident at Collierville in Tennessee in the US, relatives said on Wednesday.
According to them, Sathwika Naik (16), Suhan Naik (15) and Jaya Suchith (14), who were studying there, had attended a Christmas party at a local resident's house, which caught fire on December 24.
Mahesh Naik, a relative, said the siblings' father Srinivas Naik, a resident of Gurrapu Thanda in the district, has rushed to the US.
'The three children were studying in the USA. My uncle (Srinivas Naik) is a church pastor and runs a school here. We got the news about the disaster on Monday that there was a fire accident in a house in which they attended a Christmas party,' Mahesh Naik said.